Surname(S) / First Name(S) Mr. Salvador RUEDA PALENZUELA Nationality Spanish Date of Birth 07/07/1953

Personal information Surname(s) / First name(s) Mr. Salvador RUEDA PALENZUELA Nationality Spanish Date of birth 07/07/1953 Work experience Dates 2000 – To date Occupation or position held Director Main activities and Direct or of the Agency since its foundation 5th of June 2000. He currently heads a responsibilities team of about 50 people working in the following urban areas: land use, urban planning, mobility and public space, urban organization, economic and social cohesion, energy, water, waste, air pollution and noise. Name and address of employer Urban Ecology Agency of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain) Type of business or sector Public consortium dedicated to urban ecology planning. The Consortium Urban Ecology Agency of Barc elona is a public entity with local character and legal personality and full capacity to fulfil its purposes and of indefinite duration, made voluntarily and initially as promoters by the City Hall of Barcelona, Metropolitan Area of Barcelona and the Provincial Council of Barcelona. The main objective of the Agency is to rethink cities, urban systems, applying criteria that come from academic ecology and sustainability. Among its purposes, according to Article 4. 4 of its Statutes, the Agency is “a research centre, devel opment and innovation centre (R+D+I) by developing applied research that allows to find certain regularities of the urban systems operation that help increase the capacity of cities to advance the uncertainties projected by the environment due to the current impact that at its turn urban settlements project into it. Urban and environmental aspects, as well as social and economic, shall constitute the essential key of the research ”. Dates 1994 -1998 Occupation or position held Expert Committee Member Main activities and Participat ion in the drafting of the Green Book on Urban Environment of European responsibilities Union , and the European Sustainable City report. He was a member of the group that proposed the European Common Indicators panel and, as a member of the expert group, urged the Aalborg Charter. Name and address of employer Expert Committee on Urban Environment European Union (DGXI) Type of business or sector Assessment and advice in urban ecology planning. Dates 1993 - 2000 Occupation or position held Director of Information and Planning Area Main activities and Compose Special Waste Program of Catalonia, the 1st Municipal Waste responsibilities Management Program of Catalonia and the Metropolitan Programme of Municipal Waste Management. Name and address of employer Waste Agency of the Generalitat de Catalunya Page 1 / 12 - Curriculum vitae of BCNecologia Salvador Rueda Type of business or sector Public Administration. Dates 1992 - 1993 Occupation or position held Director of Information and Planning Area Main activities and Co mpose the Sanitation Plan of Catalonia. Includes next subprograms: sanitation responsibilities of the urban, industrial, agricultural and livestock water. Name and address of employer Sanitary Board of the Generalitat de Catalunya Type of business or sector Public Administration. Dates 1990 - 1992 Occupation or position held Coordinator of revitalization programs of Ciutat Vella Main activities and Develop ments and evaluation of a comprehensive transformation program of the responsibilities historic center of Barcelona (urban ecology program). Among the most significant projects is the Mobility Plan and the development of the first superblock of Barcelona (which includes the first segregated bike lane of Barcelona) in the Ribera district. Name and address of employer District of Ciutat Vella (Barcelona City Council) Type of business or sector Public Administration . Dates 1986 - 1990 Occupation or position held Director Environmental Services of the City of Barcelona (Chief Operating Unit Environment) Main activities and Writes the Action Plan for Exceptional Situations of High Air Pollution and the Plan responsibilities for Reducting Air Pollution of Barcelona. Under this Plan were replaced almost all oil -fired, diesel and coal boilers in Barcelona by others of natural gas significantly less polluting . Develop ment of the 1st sonic map of Barcelona and the Noise Reduction Plan of Barcelona. Elaboration of one Plan to Improve the Quality of Life in Barcelona. Name and address of employer Barcelona City Council Type of business or sector Public Administration. Dates 1980 - 1986 Occupation or position held Director of Environmental Services and Director of Municipal Laboratory Main activities and Creation of the Environment Service to assume control of classified activities: responsibilities Elaboration of the document to the Council of Ministers for declaring Sant Adrià de Besos, as Polluted Atmosphere Township. In relation to water sanitation, drives the Consortium for the Defense of Besos. Coordination of technical tasks of Consortium in training. The Consortium manages, from the mid-80s, sanitation Besòs Basin. Creation of the Parks and Gardens Service. Creation of the Municipal Laboratory for controlling air pollution, water and food contamination. Creation of the Disinfection, Pest and Rodent Control Service. Writes the Plan-Guide of Comprehensive Rehabilitation to the Mina district mandated for Parlament of Catalonia. Name and address of employer Sant Adrià de Besos Council Type of business or sector Public Administration. Page 2 / 12 - Curriculum vitae of BCNecologia Salvador Rueda Dates 1975 - 1979 Occupation or position held High School Teacher of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Main activities and Develop s his teaching on the basis of conflict resolution in the context of a school responsibilities self -management with the participation of teachers, parents and students. In focus are actions like the creation of a natural sciences team, the construction and startup of a natural science laboratory, the construction of a thermal solar panel with recovered materials (1976) and the building with parents and students of an orchard farming in Gallecs, where play Mendel ’s Laws (1976-1978). In the pedagogical process based on the transformation of reality which includes the Besòs quarter, promoves the creation of a People's University of Besos (with the completion of more than 70 seminars) and the foundation of the Environmental Group of Southwest Besòs (1st urban group of environment in Spain). Name and address of employer Gregal Institute (Barcelona Besos Southwest) Type of business or sector Public Administration. Education and training Dates 1976 Title of qualification awarded Graduate in Biological Sciences Principal subjects / occupational skills covered Name and type of organisation University of Barcelona providing education Dates 1980 Title of qualification awarded Graduate in Psychology Principal subjects / occupational skills covered Name and type of organisation University of Barcelona providing education Dates 1981 Title of qualification awarded Postgraduate in Environmental Engineering, Industry and Energy Principal subjects / occupational skills covered Name and type of organisation Ministry of Universities and Research providing education Dates 1984 Title of qualification awarded Postgraduate in Energy Management Principal subjects / occupational skills covered Name and type of organisation Polytechnic University of Barcelona providing education Mother tongue(s) Spanish - Catalan Page 3 / 12 - Curriculum vitae of BCNecologia Salvador Rueda Other language(s) Self-assessment European level (*) Understanding Speaking Writing Listening Reading Spoken Spoken interaction production English Advanced Advanced Intermediate Intermediate Intermediate C1 C1 B2 B2 B2 User User User User User French Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Intermediate C1 C1 C1 C1 B2 User User User User User Italian Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Intermediate C1 C1 C1 C1 B2 User User User User User - Technical skills and Expert in analysis of complex systems. - Formulation of creatives proposals for solving complex systems. competences - Systemic vision of future scenarios. - Driver of human groups from different disciplines working together. - Conducting participatory processes. - Transdisciplinary scenario generator. - He has also developed works in areas such as: strategic plans, urban planning and zoning, town planning, mobility, urban green, public space, urban metabolism (energy, water, air pollution, noise and waste). Among others, he wrote the first Special Waste Plan of Catalonia (1993) and the Metr opolitan Plan for Municipal Waste Management 1996-2006.He has also led the drafting of the PROGREMIC 2007-2012 and the PGRUG 2010-2020. Computer skills and Windows, Microsoft Office programmes, Outlook, Internet Explorer competences Page 4 / 12 - Curriculum vitae of BCNecologia Salvador Rueda - He has been a member of the Expert Committee on Urban Environment in Additional information UE (DGXI) (march of 1994-1998). - He is the author of the books: “Ecologia Urbana: Barcelona i la seva Regió Metropolitana com a referents” Ed. Beta Editorial (1995); “Barcelona, ciutat mediterrània, compacta i complexa. Una visió de futur més sostenible ”, Ed. Ayuntamiento de Barcelona (2002); and main author and coordinator of the books: “Libro Verde de Medio Ambiente Urbano ”. Ed. Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, Medio Rural y Marino (2006); “El Urbanismo Ecológico: su aplicación en el diseño de un ecobarrio en Figueres” (2012); “Libro Verde de Sostenibilidad Urbana y Local en la Era de la Información”. Ed. Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente

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